Kerala Politics

An Introduction To Kerala Politics- Leaders, Parties and Alliances, Election 2021 Special

An overview of the politics of the state of Kerala and the power tussle between UDF and LDF over the years. With the strengthening of NDA and the coming up with new forces we see that the power dynamics are changing this election for 2021.

Jairam R Prabhu
Politically Speaking
13 min readMar 19, 2021

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Kerala is a tiny state with a long coastal area in South India. Compared to the rest of mainland India politics is quite different and unique. On April 6th 2021, Kerala will witness its Legislative Assembly Elections. This is an election special article made for everyone who doesn’t know much about Kerala’s politics or its elections. In December, we had discussed in detail Kerala’s local self-governing body elections but didn’t cover anything much on the statewide picture. Please do read that also in order to get a better understanding of the topic.

Kerala just as said is a tiny state but despite that, it has a population of 35 Million, which is the population of the Tokyo metro. (This is not at all a small number.) It has 14…

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Jairam R Prabhu
Politically Speaking

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